Health Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014, 9:19am Rating: | Views: 1148 | Comments: 0
Number of eggs a woman has predicts heart attack risk A woman's biological clock may also tell her cellular time. The number of eggs a woman has shows how fast her cells are ageing and predicts her heart disease risk
Health Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014, 9:00am Rating: | Views: 1173 | Comments: 0
Health Source: TIME Magazine
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Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014, 9:00am Rating: | Views: 1102 | Comments: 0
Killer in the brain could help treat Parkinson's The discovery of a possible trigger for the onset of Parkinson's disease could lead to new treatments for patients who still depend on a 50-year-old drug
Health Source: New Scientist
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Friday, Oct 17, 2014, 9:38am Rating: | Views: 1084 | Comments: 0
Health Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Oct 16, 2014, 8:52am Rating: | Views: 1194 | Comments: 0
The Strange and Radical New World of 3-D Printed Body Parts A few years ago, if a horrific infection ate your jawbone, doctors had to build makeshift mandibles from your fibula, a process that left you sliced open as surgeons painstakingly whittled away at replacement bone. Yech. Today they can just hit Control-P: Based on MRI and CT scans of your busted-up body parts, hyperspecialized 3-D
Health Source: Wired
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Monday, Oct 13, 2014, 7:51pm Rating: | Views: 1211 | Comments: 0
Help Wanted: Unlikely Geniuses To Solve Public Health Problems The Grand Challenge is a new tradition in the world of public health: asking anyone (and everyone) to come up with innovations. The latest assignment: design cooler protective gear for Ebola teams.
Technology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Oct 09, 2014, 9:15am Rating: | Views: 1193 | Comments: 0
Research May Give Potential Homicide Victims A Heads Up New research in Chicago finds that homicide victims are concentrated among a tiny network. Tracing that network might lead to public health measures to protect would-be victims.
Sociology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Oct 09, 2014, 9:15am Rating: | Views: 1202 | Comments: 0
Health Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014, 9:01am Rating: | Views: 1161 | Comments: 0
Eating Comfort Foods May Not Be So Comforting After All It's tempting to seek out the mac and cheese or a pint of ice cream after a terrible, horrible, no good day. But fresh research suggests such comfort foods might not be mood boosters after all.
Health Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Oct 08, 2014, 9:01am Rating: | Views: 1166 | Comments: 0
Health Source: TheGuardian
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Friday, Oct 03, 2014, 9:27am Rating: | Views: 1172 | Comments: 0
On The Alert For Ebola, Texas Hospital Still Missed First Case Diagnosing and treating Ebola isn't so hard, health workers say; hospitals across the U.S. should be ready. But initial symptoms, such as fever and headache, can look the same as other illnesses.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Oct 02, 2014, 9:51am Rating: | Views: 1179 | Comments: 0
Health Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36pm Rating: | Views: 1214 | Comments: 0
Everyday drugs could give extra years of life Evidence is emerging that some widely used drugs can prolong lifespan for well people – and insiders have started taking them off-label
Health Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36pm Rating: | Views: 1142 | Comments: 0
Health Source: NPR
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Thursday, Sep 25, 2014, 8:26am Rating: | Views: 1195 | Comments: 0
After The NIH Funding 'Euphoria' Comes The 'Hangover' The way the National Institutes of Health doles out research grants accentuates booms and busts in the financing of scientific research. More variety in the length of grants could help.
NIH in bold move to fight gender bias in research The National Institutes of Health is providing $10 million to explore sex difference in disease, part of a move to boost female numbers in clinical trials
Health Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Sep 24, 2014, 10:20am Rating: | Views: 1183 | Comments: 0
Health Source: NPR
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Friday, Sep 19, 2014, 8:10am Rating: | Views: 1352 | Comments: 0
Colorado Tries Hard To Convince Teens That Pot Is Bad For You Do you want to be a lab rat? That's what teenagers are doing when they smoke marijuana, the state of Colorado says. But since hard evidence of marijuana's harms is scanty, it may be a tough sell.
Health Source: NPR
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Thursday, Sep 18, 2014, 7:48am Rating: | Views: 1172 | Comments: 0
Health Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Sep 18, 2014, 7:48am Rating: | Views: 1200 | Comments: 0
World closes in on goal of halving hunger by 2015 The number of people without enough to eat has fallen rapidly over the past 25 years, but sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia are still struggling
Health Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Sep 18, 2014, 7:48am Rating: | Views: 1165 | Comments: 0
Urine test for cervical cancer virus offers alternative to smear A simple urine test for the virus that causes cervical cancer could offer a less invasive and more acceptable alternative to the conventional cervical smear test, researchers said on Tuesday.
Health Source: Reuters
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Wednesday, Sep 17, 2014, 7:20am Rating: | Views: 1195 | Comments: 0
This Mortician Thinks You Should Spend More Time With Corpses Caitlin Doughty has been cutting pacemakers out of corpses, grinding human bones by hand, and loading bodies into cremation chambers for seven years. But the 30-year-old mortician doesn't want to keep all the fun to herself: She thinks the rest of us should get to have a little more face time with the deceased.
Health Source: Wired
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Wednesday, Sep 17, 2014, 7:20am Rating: | Views: 1152 | Comments: 0